Unschuld P U
Soc Sci Med. 1987;24(12):1023-9. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90018-9.
So-called Chinese medicine is practiced widely in the U.S.A. and Europe, and traditional Chinese medical concepts are presented, and advocated, through a vast body of secondary literature in European languages, as alternatives to current western interpretations of illness and disease. The present paper analyses some of the values determining the reception of traditional Chinese medicine in the west, and it demonstrates how the cognitive aesthetics of European culture and western science have influenced the selection of specific concepts from a heterogeneous pool of traditional Chinese conceptual systems of health care by western authors in recent years. A comparison of different approaches to health care in traditional Chinese as well as traditional European and modern western medicine suggests that the differences between Chinese and western medicine may not be as clear-cut as they have been portrayed in western secondary literature of the past years. One of the more fundamental dividing lines appears to be the handling of cognitive disagreements, and, possibly related to this, the ubiquitous phenomenon of patterned knowledge in Chinese medicine and culture.
所谓的中医在美国和欧洲广泛应用，通过大量的欧洲语言二手文献呈现并倡导传统中医概念，作为当前西方对疾病解释的替代方案。本文分析了一些决定西方对传统中医接受度的价值观，并展示了欧洲文化和西方科学的认知美学近年来如何影响西方作者从异质的传统中医保健概念体系中选择特定概念。对传统中医以及传统欧洲医学和现代西方医学中不同保健方法的比较表明，中西医之间的差异可能并不像过去几年西方二手文献所描绘的那样泾渭分明。其中一条更基本的分界线似乎是对认知分歧的处理，以及与此可能相关的中医和文化中普遍存在的模式化知识现象。
